(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre will premiere its virtual improv show, The Flip Side: Halloween, on Facebook on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00pm. The 30-minute performance is free, and after its debut it will be available on dreamcatcherrep.org along with all previous virtual Flip Side shows.
The Flip Side is Dreamcatcher’s house improv team, directed by Dave Maulbeck (Maplewood) and featuring Clark Carmichael (Montclair), Laura Ekstrand (Livingston), Noreen Farley (Clinton), Lulu French (Maplewood), Julian Blake Gordon (Jersey City), Scott McGowan (Maplewood), David Lee White (Bordentown), and Emaline Williams (Hackettstown).
Based on improv techniques created by The Groundlings, Upright Citizens' Brigade and The Magnet, The Flip Side offers their unique spin on short-form improv, taking audience input to create instant scenes that are both unexpected and hilarious. During the pandemic, we take suggestions via social media for our shows, and then record and make them available free of charge. Donations are greatly appreciated.
Virtual improv is just one of Dreamcatcher’s programs this season that can be accessed online. The audio play of Ways to be Happy by David Lee White is now available for download at www.dreamcatcherrep.org, and a reading of Lia Romeo’s Zoom play Sitting and Talking will be performed on Thursday, November 12. Live online performances of Holiday Bites, new short plays about the holidays, are coming up from December 4 through 13. Monthly podcast episodes of LOCAL with Laura Ekstrand are released on iTunes. All programs are either free or low cost, as Dreamcatcher is prioritizing access and sustaining the artist/audience relationship until live programming can resume.
The Flip Side: Halloween can be found @DreamcatcherRep’s on Facebook on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00pm, and then on the theatre’s website.
Dreamcatcher was founded in 1994 as a non-profit professional ensemble of actors, a subset of whom perform in every production. The mission of our ensemble is to build community with the audience by sharing contemporary, life-affirming stories that challenge, energize and entertain. We seek to expose theatregoers to ideas and lives like and unlike their own, to awaken their imaginations and create empathy for others. The company focuses on deepening the experience of our patrons by supplementing the performances with personal contact through receptions, talkbacks and interactive programs.
Dreamcatcher's core company of professional local actors performs contemporary work that entertains and challenges, and has at its heart a belief in the essential goodness of people. The company’s activities include mainstage productions, improv comedy and cabarets, new play readings and a variety of educational and senior outreach programs.
Dreamcatcher’s programs are funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, The Summit Foundation, and many other corporations, foundations and individuals. Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre is a Equity Producing member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.
